The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-08-12

A light occurred at Manchester, Kentucky,
on election day, In which one man was killed,
The Republicans Of Dickinson county are
in favor Of Senator Robinson for supreme
Judge.
A.onso Lick, Aftyseven years old, com.
mitted suicide by shooting, ct Omaha, on Fri.
day.
Forest fires are becoming quite extensiye
near Kalamazoo, Michigan; and much DAMAGE
is being done.
A distinct earthquake shock was felt
throughout southern Illinois ON Tuesday
morning at l2 :so.
The cattle commission Of Illinois announce
that Heterogeneous has been suppressed
In Cook county.
Crickets are annoying farmers In the vic,n.
ity OF Howard. They have destroyed a large
quantity Of wheat.
Chef Smith, the Chicago procurcr, has been
sentenced to the penitentiary for one year for
plying his infamous business.
August Dunn, who forged checks in Janu-
ary, 1885, on Stone & Co., bankers of Parker,
Dakota, was arrested at Minneapolis on Wed.
nesdRy.
Peter Aofer, who resided near Memo,
Dakota, wss struck by lightning on Wednes.
day and killed. Two horses that he was
driving were also killed.
During q storm Saturday night at Yates
Center, Kansas, Miss sheenan, q young lady
Is years old, was struck by lightning and In
stantlY killed while standing in the yard.
William Baldwin, who jumped from bal.
loon at Quincy, Illinois, last Fourth of July,
was refused q license to repeat his feat In
Chicago.
The Memphis cannon ball train on the Iron
Mountain road ran over q COW, derailing the
whole train and killing Engineer Alexander
Hamilton. Passengers escaped serious injury
The Glenn bill, to prevent the mixing Of
white and black pupils in schools, was passed
by the house of the Georgia legislature. The
only votes in opposition were those Of two
negro members.
A terrific hail storm visited Blunt, Dakota,
aud vicinity on Wednesday, destroying every.
thing in its path. Graia in the shock is badly
damaged and garden vegetables have been ut.
terly destroyed.
The miners In the Hooking valley came out
Monday morning on a strike for a semi
monthly payment of wages. The operatives
gave notice that they would only pay every
thirty days after August 1.
A special from Talmage, Otoe county,
Nebraska, says that Leopold Klughere, a
prominent and substantial farmer, while lead.
ing horses behind his buggy was jerked out,
breaking his back and neck and causing
death.
The ~east.bound passenger train on the Ohio
and Mississippi road was wrecked Friday
evening near Cochran, Indiana, by a broken
axle. Postal Clerk Robert Baker and a man
who was walking along the track were in.
stantly killed. No other serious causalties.
A Richmond, Ind, special says: Joseph
Rich, . farmer. returning from town in a
wagon Friday, together with his wife, baby
and wife's mother, attempted to cross a rail-
road track ahead of . passenger train. AS a
result Rich, his baby and wifc's mother, were
instantly killed, and Mrs. Rich terribly man.
gled.
George Burton, aged thirty-onc, murdered
his wife, wounded his mother.in.law and shot
himself at his home, two and a half miles
south of Homer, Michigan, op Tuesday. Bur.
ton and his wife had parted and she had in
stitutcd proceedings for divorce. She re-
turned to the house for her clothes, and they
quarrclcd with the result stated.
A Cincinnati Commcrcial-Gazette Evans.
Vile, Indiana, special says that at the time of
the earthquake the farm Of B. r. Haydan, in
Trfgtg county, Kentucky, midway between the
Cumberland and Tennessee rivers, sank four
or five feet below Its former level. There
were 300 acres in the farm, and 1t is filing
with water and becoming a lake.
Michael Murray instantly killed F. E. Boos.
key, ex-postmaster of Mitchell, ILL.,, at the lat
ter's hotel In that village on Monday evening.
1t seems that Booskey was abusing a negro
waiter and Murray, who was q guest at the
house, demonstrated, when Booskcy advanced
mcnacingly toward him. whcreupon he drew a
revolver and shot Booskcy through the head.
Murray escaped.
AT Detroit on Monday the preliminary trial
OF Sergeant Clark, of the Twanty.third United
States infantry, for the shooting Of Private
Albert Stone, resulted in his discharge, tie
court holding that he must obey any legal Or
dc. Of his superior officers. Stone, who had
been sentenced to milltsry prison, was shot
down while trying to escape.
VIM. F. Forward, at Palatka, Florida, clerk
OF the circuit court, chairman Of the Demo-
cratic county executive committee and son of |
an ex-circutt judge, has been suspended BY
the governor on charges Of malfcasancc, e,,-
bczzlement, mutilation Of records and various |
private ~disrcputable transactions, involving, |
as estimated by his friends, GEE, 600.
Adjt.Gen. Tyler has located the next Dakota
militia encampment in Huron, aud dcsir. |
mated the first eight days in September as the
date for it, beginning Thursday the LIST. The
most complete arrangements are being per.
fccted for the meeting, some Of which will re.
suit in relieving soldiers from some Of the
which have hitherto been irksome to |
them.
A horrible accident occurred at Council,
Bluffs Wednesday evening. A butcher named
Christian Koening, q German employed by
Eugene Mottaz, attempted to prod a stubborn
bovine in the slaughter pen. The animal
commenced kicking with terrific force, driv-
ing a knife into Kocning's abdomen u dis.
lance of four inches, d~isemboweling him and
making a CHASTITY wound from which the in.